The Willington plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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74° on Nov. 16, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1888. Next is 73° in 2020.
Willington’s center stands about 870 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 420 ft to 950 ft, a difference of 530 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Burley Hill, about 1,320 ft, 9 miles north-northeast.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss, schist. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Schist, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Late Ordovician, 449 to 453 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Basalt, gabbro. Age: Middle Jurassic, 164 to 175 million years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Willington reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Fenton, the Natchaug, the Shetucket and the Thames: about 50 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Willington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Willington has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 39 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Willington normally reaches 51° and falls to 34°. The record high is 67°, in 1902; the record low 10°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 2.21 in, fell in 1937.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1888 at Storrs, 7 miles south, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
